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Staff Picks March 2017 Teresa C. from Collections is providing our picks this month.
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Heaven is beautiful : how dying taught me that death is just the beginning
by Peter Baldwin Panagore
Based on the author's real-life story of dying on a mountain, this enthralling book combines the thrills of a wilderness adventure with the awe inspiring elements of a paranormal novel. In March of 1980, college senior Peter Panagore went ice climbing on the world-famous Lower Weeping Wall, along the Ice Fields Parkway in Alberta, Canada. His climbing partner was an experienced ice climber, but Panagore was a novice. On their descent, they became trapped on the side of the mountain. As the sun set, he was overcome by exhaustion and hypothermia. He died on the side of that mountain in 1980.
Call Number: 231.73 PAN
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Orphan X
by Gregg Andrew Hurwitz
Using his skills as an elite former agent and assassin to advocate anonymously for desperate people, Evan Smoak finds himself pursued by someone with comparable training who would exploit his life of service to find and eliminate him.
Call Number: F HURWITZ, GREGG
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Runner
by Patrick Lee
A first installment in a new series by the best-selling author of The Breach finds retired Special Forces operative Sam Dryden saving the life of an 11-year-old girl with no memory of her past who possesses a dangerous skill that is highly sought by violent government forces.
Call Number: F LEE, PATRICK
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You will not have my hate
by Antoine Leiris
A man whose wife was killed in the November 13, 2015 Bataclan Theater attack in Paris, and whose open letter to the killers went viral on Facebook, provides a memoir of how he and his baby son endured after losing the most important woman in their lives.
Call Number: 362.88 LEI
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At the sign of triumph
by David Weber
When the leaders and soldiers of the tiny island of Charis rise up behind cybernetic avatar Merlin to defend their home, a powerful Church of God Awaiting, pushed to the brink of defeat, draws on its formidable resources and forbidden technologies in an ultimate battle between freedom and oppression.
Call Number: SF WEBER, DAVID
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Downfall : a Brady novel of suspense
by Judith A Jance
Juggling her pregnancy, family deaths, her daughter's imminent departure for college and a reelection campaign, Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady investigates two suspicious falling deaths that may be the work of a serial killer.
Call Number: M JANCE, JUDITH A.
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Night school : a Jack Reacher novel
by Lee Child
It's 1996, and Reacher is still in the army. In the morning they give him a medal, and in the afternoon they send him back to school. That night he's off the grid. Two other men are in the classroom--an FBI agent and a CIA analyst. Each is a first-rate operator, each is fresh off a big win, and each is wondering what the hell they are doing there. Then they find out: A Jihadist sleeper cell in Hamburg, Germany, has received an unexpected visitor--a Saudi courier, seeking safe haven while waiting to rendezvous with persons unknown. Their mission heats up in more ways than one, while always keeping their eyes on the prize: if they don't get their man, the world will suffer an epic act of terrorism.
Call Number: F CHILD, LEE
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The woman in cabin 10
by Ruth Ware
Assigned to review an exclusive North Sea luxury cruise, travel journalist Lo Blacklock witnesses a woman being thrown overboard and is baffled when all passengers remain unruffled and accounted for, a nightmare that unravels as Lo struggles to convince everyone that what she saw was real.
Call Number: F WARE, RUTH
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Burning bright
by Nicholas Petrie
When his restful vacation among the northern California redwoods is hampered by claustrophobia and a grizzly that forces him to retreat up a tree, war veteran Peter Ash discovers a hanging platform where a journalist who has escaped a kidnapping is hiding from gun-toting captors.
Call Number: F PETRIE, NICHOLAS
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The case against sugar
by Gary Taubes
An eye-opening expose that makes the convincing case that sugar is the tobacco of the new millennium: backed by powerful lobbies, entrenched in our lives, and making us very sick. Among Americans, diabetes is more prevalent today than ever; obesity is at epidemic proportions; nearly 10% of children are thought to have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. And sugar is at the root of these, and other, critical society-wide, health-related problems. With his signature command of both science and straight talk, Gary Taubes delves into Americans' history with sugar: its uses as a preservative, as an additive in cigarettes, the contemporary overuse of high-fructose corn syrup.
Call Number: 613.2 TAU
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Muslim girl : a coming of age
by Amani Al-Khatahtbeh
Describes the author's adolescence as a Muslim girl in post-9/11 America, including how she dealt with Islamophobia, how she created a website that became a cultural phenomenon, and how she feels about America's political climate.
Call Number: B AL-KHATAHTBEH, AMANI
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A season for tending : Amish Vines and Orchards Book 1
by Cindy Woodsmall
Rhoda Byler's gift with plants leads to the enmity of a young man in her Old Order Amish community, but when she meets Samuel King, whose orchard is struggling, he suggests that they can solve each other's problems.
Call Number: F WOODSMALL, CINDY
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The trapped girl
by Robert Dugoni
When a woman’s body is discovered submerged in a crab pot in the chilly waters of Puget Sound, Detective Tracy Crosswhite finds herself with a tough case to untangle.
Call Number: F DUGONI, ROBERT
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